The Quad Urbanist

This post about ST3 (the third installment of the Sound Transit Link expansion) interested me in its own right, but I want to use it as a j...

 This study from Forbes suggests that car ownership costs a lot of money, relative to using bikes in particular. I think this is correct, b...

For this Christmas Eve, I'm thinking about how travel takes effort. Not just physical effort, but mental: you gotta figure out how to go...

Look, here in Iowa we've had our share and more than our share of cold and snow already this fall-winter (it's not technically winte...

  This excellent post on how trams and tramways can be built well or badly made me think more broadly about the significance of both optimi...

This post  made me want to talk about how we conceive of space. It's about Seattle (and really, Washington State) getting a legal space ...

  This article about Seattle's trolleybuses made me feel some feelings, since I grew up in Seattle taking trolleybuses fairly frequentl...